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116.—(1) Any person entitled to be supplied, in accordance with regulation 99, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107 or 111, with copies of the full register at a particular parliamentary or local government election is also a person entitled, subject to this regulation and to regulation 118, to request that the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland supply copies of the relevant part (within the meaning of those regulations) of the marked register or lists he is required to keep.
(2) A person whose entitlement to request copies of the marked register or lists under paragraph (1) arises from his being in a category of persons to whom regulation 102, 104, 105 or 106 applies before a particular election, shall be entitled to request those documents regardless of whether he remains in an entitled category after that election.
(3) A request under paragraph (1) shall be made in writing and shall—
(a)specify which of the marked register or lists (or the relevant part of the register or lists) are requested;
(b)state whether a printed copy of the records or lists is requested or a copy in data form;
(c)state the purpose for which the marked register or lists will be used and why the supply or purchase of a copy of the full register or unmarked lists would not be sufficient to achieve that purpose.
(4) The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland shall supply a copy of the relevant part of the marked register or lists where a request is duly made and—
(a)he is satisfied that the requestor needs to see the marks on the marked register or lists in order to achieve the purpose for which it is requested; and
(b)he has received payment of a fee calculated in accordance with regulation 119.
(5) If the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland is not satisfied as mentioned in paragraph (4)(a) he may treat the request for a marked register or list as a request for information in unmarked lists under regulation 66 or for the published copy of the full register in accordance with regulation 110, or both.
(6) A person who obtains a copy of any part of a marked register or list under this regulation may use it only for the permitted purpose specified in paragraph (2) of regulation 118, and any conditions—
(a)specified in that paragraph; or
(b)which would apply to the use of the full register under whichever of regulations 99,102,104,105, 106,107 or 111 entitled that person to obtain that document,
shall apply to such use.
(7) The conditions referred to in paragraph (6) apply to a person to whom the marked register or lists, or any information contained in it (that is not contained in the edited register) has been supplied or disclosed under those paragraphs as they apply to the person to whom those regulations apply.
(8) Any person who has obtained or is entitled to obtain a copy of the marked register or lists under this regulation may—
(a)supply a copy of the marked register or lists to a processor for the purpose of processing the information contained therein, or
(b)procure that a processor processes and supplies to them any copy of the information in the marked register or lists which the processor has obtained under this regulation,
for use in respect of the purposes for which that person is entitled to obtain such copy or information (as the case may be).
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C1Reg. 116 applied (with modifications) (26.2.2016) by The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/219), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 105
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